Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper - Live Adventures - Rare Double Vinyl LP - VG+-EX

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The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper is a double album recorded at the Fillmore West venue -- the album is a successor to the studio album Super Session which included both Bloomfield and Kooper in addition to Stephen Stills, and had achieved commercial and critical success earlier in 1968. The album remains an important, if raw, document of a live blues-rock performance of the period and apart from its intrinsic qualities is notable for not only one of the earliest live recordings by Carlos Santana, but also Bloomfield's debut as a vocalist. Whilst he is not historically noted in this role, in "Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong", according to Kooper, "he displays consummate homage to the traditional guitar-voice trade-offs; a lesson in phrasing and understanding." Live Adventures took place over three nights, and according to Kooper, for two sets a night; this should have yielded in the region of 12 hours of recordings, of which the album provides just short of 90 minutes. Bloomfield died in 1981 but this album is one of the major reasons for his reputation as a blues guitarist; Kooper now teaches songwriting and production, and still plays live concerts.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Opening Speech" (Mike Bloomfield) – 1:30

2. "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" (Paul Simon) – 5:38[4]
3. "I Wonder Who" (Ray Charles) – 6:04
4. "Her Holy Modal Highness" (Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield) – 9:08[5]

Side Two

1. "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) – 4:00
2. "Mary Ann" (Ray Charles) – 5:19
3. "Together 'Til the End of Time" (Frank Wilson) – 4:15
4. "That's All Right" (Arthur Crudup) – 3:28[6]
5. "Green Onions" (Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr., Lewie Steinberg) – 5:26

Side Three

1. "Opening Speech" (Al Kooper) – 1:28
2. "Sonny Boy Williamson"[7] (Jack Bruce, Paul Jones) – 6:04
3. "No More Lonely Nights"[8] (Sonny Boy Williamson I) – 12:27

Side Four

1. "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (Jim Capaldi, Stevie Winwood, Chris Wood) – 8:04
2. "Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong" (Albert King) – 10:56
3. "Finale-Refugee"[9] (Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield) – 2:04

Album cover

• on the front cover, a painting of Bloomfield and Kooper by Norman Rockwell.
• on the rear cover, against a background of a montage of crowd scenes (not necessarily from the concert audience), superimposed photographs of the core band and a track listing.
• on the interior, a more detailed track listing, text of Bloomfield's opening speech, and notes by Kooper, as well as other album credits.

Personnel

• Al Kooper – Organ, Ondioline, Piano (overdub as Roosevelt Gook on "Together 'Til the End of Time")[11]
• Mike Bloomfield – guitar
• John Kahn – bass guitar
• Skip Prokop – drums
• Carlos Santana – guitar
• Elvin Bishop – guitar

Steve Miller and Dave Brown had also volunteered their services but if they performed, their contributions do not appear (at least credited) on the album 

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